Through his control of state-owned radio, television and newspapers, Arafat was able to incite and brainwash the rest of his people that were old enough not to have received a "proper" Palestinian education. Again, this is all carefully documented.
By early 2000, the Palestinian population was so completely convinced of the necessity to destroy Israel before a peace deal could be concluded, that Arafat needed to find an excuse for an uprising to vent popular anger before it turned on him. Peace was within his grasp, but Arafat was a wartime ruler. In peacetime, he would be quickly replaced, and he knew that.
[b]In July 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered him everything he had been asking for[/b]. If he accepted the Camp David offer, there would be nothing left to fight over. Planning the new uprising went into high gear. According to PA Communications Minister Imad Faluji: "It [the intifada] had been planned since PA Chairman Arafat's return from Camp David, when he turned the tables on the former U.S. president [Clinton] and rejected the American conditions."
All that remained to find was an excuse. Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount provided the excuse he needed in October, and the "spontaneous" Al Aqsa intifada began. But Arafat can no longer control it.
As Sheik Abdul Majid Atta told the Washington Times this week, "Hamas owns the streets," not Arafat. The EU has demanded Arafat dismantle Hamas and Hezbollah. The U.S. has demanded he arrest 33 wanted terrorists. Even the U.N. demanded he "do something" about the continued suicide attacks against Israeli civilian targets.
But he can't. He created an atmosphere in which 4 out of 5 Palestinians support continued violence. Less than 20 percent support a ceasefire. His own lieutenants are breaking up into factions. If he meets the demands of the Europeans, Americans and U.N. officials, he will be deposed or assassinated by his own people. If he doesn't, he will be deposed or assassinated by the Israelis. Arafat created a Frankenstein monster. And like the creator of the monster in Mary Shelley's classic, he may well die by its hand.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25644[/url]
Eric The(LetTheDirgeBegin!)Hun[>]:)]

The dumbest thing Isreal ever did was to give back the territories that they won in battle. The Sainai (can't spell the place) Peninsula was a "who cares" place. Nobody of consequence lives there. But the other three, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights were all sources of attacks. The next dumb thing was to even consider letting Arafat onto the continent. Notice that none of the arab countries wanted him. He was even tossed out of Greece. Arming the "palestinian police" wasn't too bright either. Those "police" were just Arafat's uniformed terrorists.
Arggh.
still can't spell Sai ...